DfXPCB Designers Hold Smart Factories RansomMany companies have ended up “just living with” multiple, repeated PCB fabrication and assembly issues for years, regarding them as a given. If smart factories are to work, however, this has to change. Here’s how..by Michael Ford

ADDITIVE PROCESSINGSavings and Efficiencies with Printed Silver Flexible CircuitsHistorically, a designer’s only recourse as electronics packaging became denser was to incorporate flexible PCBs to route traces around 3D structures. Innovations in printing and component attach are seeing light, flexible printed silver circuitry in high-density applications where more costly traditional etched copper circuits were once exclusive.by Greg Kuchuris